Radar Detectors

[G27]

I've read in several places that lidar is only admissible to court at distances <1k ft and it can only be run while stationary. That's probably why every municipality I've driven through in the last few years uses such high percentages of radar vs lidar.

As stated above, the lidar detector is simply something to tell you to look at your speedo and if you are exceeding the limit, be prepared to stop.

[Guest JeepMonkey]

I've read in several places that lidar is only admissible to court at distances <1k ft and it can only be run while stationary. That's probably why every municipality I've driven through in the last few years uses such high percentages of radar vs lidar.

Very true. Unlike radar, LIDAR is a focused beam that has to have a steady fix on its target, which usually requires the gun to be stationary. You also have to physically aim it up at the car you intend to clock by using the gun's sights.

[Guest db99wj]

Highway I don't have to worry about, I drive by cruise control. 65, I might be around 70. Usually 0-5mph over. In my Jeep, it doesn't really like going above 70-75mph. RPM gets high, sucks gas and well she is old, and doesn't like it. The Jeep I am hopefully about to buy, :fingerscrossed:, has a 3.8 V6 that can hardly get out of its own way. Most of my tickets, all over the past 10 years, which is about 4 or 5, have been on those blind curves or blind hills, when the speed limit is 30 or 35 and I am going about 5 over, and there are about 4-6 officers out on the road pulling people over.

My speedO only works at 40 or 45mph and above, so I can't use it on those roads, I would too.

For the most part, I don't speed anymore, I try not to get in a hurry. Work, I don't have to clock in or anything. Everything else, I plan accordingly. If I am going to late, it is only by a few minutes, and it is due to traffic or something like that.

[Guest flyfishtn]

Hands down, best detector on the market. I have one in my truck and it has saved me many times.

The best part is picking up the laser.

The best one made.

http://www.valentine1.com/

[Reservoir Dog]

Hands down, best detector on the market. I have one in my truck and it has saved me many times.

The best part is picking up the laser.

I have a Valentine One, as well. It is an excellent radar detector, and has saved me several times. However, it couldn't save from a Metro officer with a laser.

Laser detection is just false security. You might get lucky and pick up a bit of the laser from another vehicle, but 99% of the time, when the laser detector goes off, you have already been busted.

[Guest shadow12]

Well, I got 2 today, both doing 20 over the limit. Both had radar detectors, when I got to the car, the detector was screaching away. Didn't help them much.

With both cars I was stationary, and just waited until I saw them, hit the button, and POW, they are got.

[Guest Boomhower]

And Linoge, please don't drive anywhere near VA. It is a $300 ticket to even possses one there, and they have a detector detector. And to top it off, they confiscate the thing, if it is hardwired, they will just rip it out, or impound the car. Your choice, they are nice that way.

Yep...I know a guy that once had the privilege of putting his RD under his back tire and roll over it.....VA doesn't care!

[Guest Boomhower]

Well, I got 2 today, both doing 20 over the limit. Both had radar detectors, when I got to the car, the detector was screaching away. Didn't help them much.

With both cars I was stationary, and just waited until I saw them, hit the button, and POW, they are got.

Did you ask them if they still had their receipts so that they could go get their money back......

[Guest JeepMonkey]

Well, I got 2 today, both doing 20 over the limit. Both had radar detectors, when I got to the car, the detector was screaching away. Didn't help them much.

With both cars I was stationary, and just waited until I saw them, hit the button, and POW, they are got.

See, that's not why I want one. I still drive the speed limit if I have one in the car. I recently got ticketed in fog for 59 in a 50 when I was doing 45 (the car going the other way flew past me though) and I didn't get out of it. I figured it would be a good warning if one is around so I can slow down below the limit just to be safe.

[strickj]

See, that's not why I want one. I still drive the speed limit if I have one in the car. I recently got ticketed in fog for 59 in a 50 when I was doing 45 (the car going the other way flew past me though) and I didn't get out of it. I figured it would be a good warning if one is around so I can slow down below the limit just to be safe.

Um,if you were already going 5 under,how would that have helped outside of a complete stop?

[Guest samueld308]

Guys a detection device will only work with an unskilled traffic officer. The skilled traffic officer will be well hidden. And he/she will have already identified the fastest moving vehicle. He/she will have their radar set to fast mode which identifies the fastest moving vehicle. By the time your detection device signals you its too late. Save your money. I know this is an unpopular advice but, its true. I worked in a department where traffic enforcement was the main focus. You can't beat a set of fast scanning eyes. But if you have a detection device and its visible, you can beat an officer will activate his radar just to mess with you.

Edited March 13, 2009 by samueld308

[Guest JeepMonkey]

I agree with the skilled vs. unskilled officers, but every time I've been pulled it was by a cop whose badge had a year on it that was only a year or two old, if that.

[Rightwinger]

How many times have you been pulled over in your extensive 3 year max driving history Jeep?

I'm 45 and can still count the times I have been pulled over, including while attempting to follow the object of my investigations as a private investigator on both hands. I have had two tickets, one speeding to catch up to a person under investigation and another way that was back when interstate speeds were 55 and I was trying to get home from UT for the holidays. That's in 29.5 years of driving. (yeah I had a learners permit at 15 and did some driving on the back roads with Dad in prep for that)

The kicker, I pretty much get there about as fast as you. You still have to slow down and stop for traffic signals, off ramps, other slower traffic. When you average it all up those of you who speed do not save much if any time and you definitely don't save any money worth the extra gas you use to get around me before the road necks down into one lane and then we both get to ride nose to tail and you get to point B exactly 1.8 seconds before I do.

You don't need a radar detector, you need to run the limit or a little over and what everyone else is averaging on the interstate and pay attention to what's going on around you. That will keep road hazard # 2 in your young life from occurring, the dreaded accident.

Since we can expect a thread on that soon. How many accidents?

[Guest JeepMonkey]

How many times have you been pulled over in your extensive 3 year max driving history Jeep?

I'm 45 and can still count the times I have been pulled over, including while attempting to follow the object of my investigations as a private investigator on both hands. I have had two tickets, one speeding to catch up to a person under investigation and another way that was back when interstate speeds were 55 and I was trying to get home from UT for the holidays. That's in 29.5 years of driving. (yeah I had a learners permit at 15 and did some driving on the back roads with Dad in prep for that)

The kicker, I pretty much get there about as fast as you. You still have to slow down and stop for traffic signals, off ramps, other slower traffic. When you average it all up those of you who speed do not save much if any time and you definitely don't save any money worth the extra gas you use to get around me before the road necks down into one lane and then we both get to ride nose to tail and you get to point B exactly 1.8 seconds before I do.

You don't need a radar detector, you need to run the limit or a little over and what everyone else is averaging on the interstate and pay attention to what's going on around you. That will keep road hazard # 2 in your young life from occurring, the dreaded accident.

Since we can expect a thread on that soon. How many accidents?

I got my learner's permit on my 15th birthday and have been pulled 6 times with 2 tickets, but only once was I speeding more than 5 over, and that was speeding up to avoid getting t-boned in an intersection. The officer sitting in clear view of everything that happened still decided to pull me and not the idiot that ran the light since it was easier for him to pull out of the gas station and grab me and not go through the light to follow him. I eventually got out of that one in court after using the CCTV cameras from that gas station to show I sped up to avoid a wreck. I've been in 3 accidents, but I was not at fault in any of them (rear-ended at a redlight, hit head-on when a car lost control and crossed through the median, and rolled after being spun out on the highway).

Not sure how many times I have to say this, but I don't want a detector to speed. The cops in my hometown are about as ruthless as KPD with tickets, except they don't have interstates to keep them busy, so you see a lot of tickets for stupid crap. It's almost getting to the point there to where, if you don't want a ticket, you drive 10 under or don't drive. They also never use LIDAR or POP radar, so early detection is possible.

Edited March 14, 2009 by JeepMonkey

[Rightwinger]

Wow, your a cop magnet. Good luck.

[Guest JeepMonkey]

Yup, in a non-descript filthy black car even, although I have only been pulled over twice in Knox county, and that was for having a third brake light out and for my tag appearing to be expired (NC tags are valid through the 15th day of the month after what's listed on your tag, and registration verifies that). All the other times were in NC for something stupid.